Word: selma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...copies of the first edition were printed. The paper includes stories on voter registration activities during Alabama's five-day registration period, an attempt to integrate Tuskegee's white churches, a tear-gassing incident in Marengo and the arrest of a civil-rights leader on embezzlement charges in Selma. A long feature described a sharecropper's strike organized by a "Freedom Labor Union" in Mississippi...
...paper has regular correspondents stationed in Montgomery, Selma. Birmingham, Mobile, Huntsville, and Tuskegee, as well as local stringers in a number of smaller Alabama cities. A "crisis car" will be responsible for covering major civil rights stories all over the south...
Alabama's white authorities, who in some past instances have been less than notable in their pursuit of justice, went at this case with special vigor. Mayor Joe Smitherman of Selma told Public Safety Director Wilson Baker to spare nothing in the investigation. Baker and two aides flew to San Francisco to question contributors to DCVL, last week spent five days in New Jersey and Ohio on the same mission...
...that constituted embezzlement remained for the courts to decide. Reese and others claimed that DCVL's board of directors last spring authorized him to spend the money in the expectation that his civil rights activities would surely get him fired from his job as a math teacher at Selma's all-Negro Hudson High School. Reese was, indeed, fired last month. However, he had neglected to explain the DCVL board's authorization to the organization's steering committee, which has overall responsibility for the DCVL's campaign. Reese said later that he had been "going...
Shortly after Reese was indicted, Martin Luther King sent to Selma his top deputy, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy. "There may have been some practices not in line with acceptable accounting procedures," said Abernathy. "But I'm not suggesting that there has been any dishonesty. If there have been mistakes, they have been mistakes of the head and not of the heart." With more emotion than legal merit, Abernathy insisted that what Reese had done with DCVL funds was "none of the business" of the Dallas County grand jury...